If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ...… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as… — Frances M. Beal Copy Share Image
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Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
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The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Is the Church inimical to science? Growing up as a Catholic and a scientist - I don't see it. One truth is… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
For the third year in a row, the United States has set a record for winter warmth, federal scientists reported yesterday. With… — William K. Stevens Copy Share Image
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Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The truth is that once you get down on the trading floor, you find that the traders come from all walks of… — Linda Bradford Raschke Copy Share Image
Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
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I must admit that any favorable mention of the flying saucers by a scientist amounts to extreme heresy and places the one… — Frank B. Salisbury Copy Share Image
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